05/18/2007
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"The big objective, of course, is for there to be peace and freedom—peace in the Middle East, freedom for people who are oppressed."
"If the Security Council can't act, then the United States will."
"Iraq as a dictatorship had great power to destabilize the Middle East."
"I assured the Secretary-General our Nation will still continue to provide help for famine and disease."